This week has been by far the most productive and rewarding week of the year. It all started with the huge TLB machine arriving early Monday morning. The shear power of such a machine is daunting and exhilarating at the same time. It ripped an old tree stump out of the ground with the same amount of effort one would use to pull a carrot from the soil. Every stroke of the powerful mechanical arm revealed several meters of virgin topsoil. Two hours later I had a new veggie garden larger than a small country in Europe! The possibilities of such a veggie garden are endless...!
That afternoon I took a basket filled with bottles of my homemade pickles to a local restaurant and gave them some to taste....to my sheer delight the owner told me that I could put up a display in the new shop they are opening in town next month and they would sell my wares!! Yes! Yes! Yes!!
Needless to say, I have been churning out bottles of pickled cauliflower, Lebanese style pickled turnips, pickled radishes (of course!) and Eugenia berry jam all week!
The past 2 months I have been working away at converting my garage into a farm stall and tea garden to sell my pickles and jams, coffee and cakes etc. Living in tranquil countryside right next door to a game park one able to see the wildlife from the comfort of my house or you could walk to the fence and watch the giraffe tasting the treetops, the springbok, wildebeest, all sorts of antelope and even the rhino fearlessly grazing as no predators roam their territory. I would love to share this experience with people and what better way than to create a little country shop where they are able to sit outside, relax and enjoy the view! It all sounds very romantic and I get caught up in my vision oh so easily, however, it involves lots of work! So this week another step in this direction was also achieved. The side wall of the garage was broken out and the entrance to the shop was made! Yet another reason to celebrate! Keep watching this space...!
Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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